A little bit of what we have lost ………. Manchester in the 1990s

Now I always maintain that it is often some of the most recent photographs of the city which look outdated and somehow out of place.

I suppose it is because we are prepared for those old black and white images from the beginning of the last century or the end of the 19th.

The people and the places are quite clearly from another time, when they did things differently, and even when the buildings are still there, they belong to that other time.

But not so more recent images, which are usually in colour and have enough about them to be almost now, but not quite.

And these two of St Peter’s Square fit that bill.

Both date from the 1990s, feature those old blue trams, and feature Central Ref and the Cenotaph.

But just a quarter of century or so on, the trams have been replaced, the Cenotaph relocated, and Central Ref undergone a major refurbishment and make over.

Added to which, the square itself has been transformed, and while we have lost the People’s Garden, we have gained a new metro stop, and an exciting new open space.

Well I think so anyway.

Leaving me just to expect a shedload of comments.

Location; St Peter's Square

Pictures; St Peter’s Square, circa 1990s, from the collection of picture postcards of Rita Bishop